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The Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs) are a list of 40 academic institutions funded either by the Government of India or the State governments of India that participate in the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) for the admission process into their undergraduate programs in architecture, planning, sciences, and various branches of engineering and technology.
Indian Institutes of Handloom Technology (IIHTs) are government run public institutes of higher education in the handloom sector.
The state has the third highest number of handlooms and the highest number of handloom weavers in co-operative units. The department of handlooms is responsible for ensuring the sustainability of the weavers by facilitating raw materials for production, infrastructure support, marketing and sales of finished goods through Co-optex. [13] Powerloom
National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi [4] was set up at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi under the administrative control of the Ministry of Textiles. [5] The Museum is a structured village complex consisting of 15 structures representing village dwellings, courtyards and shrines from different states spread over an area of 5 hectares.
Terracotta shrine figure of Aiyanar, who is a male village guardian deity. The Crafts Museum was established in 1956 by the now defunct All India Handicrafts Board. [4] It was set up over a period of 30 years starting in the 1950s and 60s by the efforts of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, when the area was envisaged as an ethnographic space where craftsmen from various parts of India would come in to ...
Sant Kabir Award is an Indian Government award conferred to outstanding weavers who have made valuable contribution in keeping alive the handloom heritage. It was established for dedication in building up linkages between the past, present and future through dissemination of knowledge on traditional skills and designs by Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. [1]
In 1950 Pupul Jayakar was invited by Jawaharlal Nehru to study the handloom sector of the economy. [1] The AIHB was established in 1952. [2] [3] [4] Its first chair was Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. [5] Other early key figures included Lakshmi Chand Jain, Kitty Shiva Rao and Fori Nehru. [2] [6]
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